15 Front Doors With Personality

Revved up to refined, these doors let you in on their design brilliance before you even get near enough to enter

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If eyes are the windows of the soul, front doors are the portals to our personalities. Are you warm and welcoming, or private and shy? Are you artsy, traditional, adventurous? All of the above? A front door can say a lot about you, and you should let it.

Here are 15 beauties — all with different but big personalities — to get you started.

There are entire books dedicated to beautiful doors around the world. Why not take a cue from your favorite place and include a little Indian scrollwork or Moroccan filigree, or Spanish colonial peeling paint?

Love this article, as my front door is the last project to go..i think everything will scream something in the next decade, just yesterday remiscing with a friend about our beautiful blue and yellow themed kitchens about 20 years ago...

I like this center pivot door we designed and build for an orthodontist office in Seattle.
The office has an industrial backdrop. The door had a side lite built into the frame. The entire structure received a rustic patina and a protective clear coat.
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Here is another center pivot door of the homeowners design. It had a complicated door knob/lock mechanism in the adjacent wall rather than in the door itself. We at Architectural Elements engineered and built the door.
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I agree with simps214. My first thought with the glass doors was that it would never work in Costa Rica...easy break in. On the other hand, Costa Ricans leave their wooden front doors natural and when I painted my front door paprika orange and lime green the man who created my door cringed.

Here is a dramatic courtyard entrance door in front of a Seattle residence. We constructed the door slab and the overhead lighted soffit from aluminum and the structure and side panels from square tube steel and 3/8" steel plate.
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This pivot door was built by Architectural Elements and the home builder Dovetail Construction. The door was painted a contrasting red color. The house was designed by renowned Seattle architect, Tom Kundig. We at Architectural Elements built extensive metal works for the home. The project gallery can be seen at: at:http://www.archele.com/projects/images/kundig-dovetail/12.jpg